Mac OS X 10.6 - Snow Leopard

Do any U.S. residents know if Best Buy will have boxed copies on Friday? I really want mine but not sure if it's best to order from apple.com, amazon, or hope that Best Buy has one... unfortunately, the nearest Apple Store is 2 hours away...

Picked it up on Friday from Best Buy. I'm a little hesitant to install, but the speed improvements to Mail and XCode improvements seem worthwhile... finishing an update to my iPhone app, and want to complete that before jumping in with both feet to the upgrade.

The improvements in Snow Leopard actually interest me a lot more than the new features of Leopard did, but I'm not going to install 10.6.0 on anything - it usually takes a couple of point releases for the bumps to get ironed out.
Anyway, it'll probably take six months before Pro Tools works on Snow Leopard and I'm too lazy to dual boot on my main machine. The question for me is: should I upgrade my MacBook from Tiger?
Apple will probably stop issuing security updates for Tiger now, so I feel like I should, but that pushes the price up quite a bit - especially if you don't want iLife or iWork. If I can get a cheap Leopard license somewhere I might go for it though.

Apple's added a lot of polish to small details. It's like a treasure hunt to find the little differences between Leopard and Snow Leopard. Spaces behaves much better. I get an overall gestalt of more solidity than I did in Leopard. Definitely a worthwhile upgrade. I'm really glad Apple has taken a step back and made their existing functionality better instead of just shoveling in more features. Hopefully they'll manage to set the trend for other companies...

Has anyone tried Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash CS3 on Snow Leopard yet?
I know Adobe released a statement saying that they had tested Photoshop CS3 even though it isn't officially supported. But I haven't heard about Flash or Illustrator.

monteboyd Wrote:Has anyone tried Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash CS3 on Snow Leopard yet?
I know Adobe released a statement saying that they had tested Photoshop CS3 even though it isn't officially supported. But I haven't heard about Flash or Illustrator.

Photoshop CS1 seems to work fine. I've heard that CS3 has minor issues, but no one will say exactly what those issues are.

I've got SL. Not too many problems. I had to recompile wget, some strange typing issues in colloquy (which *might* not be Snow Leopard, but I've never seen it before). I like the expose changes, but not much else stands out to me.

It does seem like my hard drive sleeping patterns have changed, but I installed Snow Leopard on a different drive, so that probably explains what's going on. Maybe my new hard drive spins up more slowly.

Just have to say, Exchange integration is an absolute godsend for me at work. Having been forced into using Entourage previously, I was cursing at my e-mail client multiple times every day. Being able to use Mail and iCal instead is a HUGE win.